Venus out at Rogers Cup

Sixth- seeded Venus Williams tumbled out of the Rogers Cup in the third round Thursday in Monaco, falling 6- 1, 6- 7 ( 2), 6- 3 to 10th- seeded Madison Keys in an all- American match. Playing her last tournament match before the Rio Olympics, Williams, 36, lost seven consecutive games before holding serve in the third game of the second set. After Williams rallied to tie the match, Keys found her serve in the third set, punctuating the victory with an ace on match point. Keys, 21, will face 16th- seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia in the quarterfinals. Pavlyuchenkova beat fourth- seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland. Britain’s Johanna Konta beat American Varvara Lepchenko 6- 3, 6- 2 to set up a quarterfinal against Slovakia’s Kristina Kucova, a 3- 6, 6- 4, 6- 3 winner over Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard

in the late match. Second- seeded Angelique Kerber of Germany beat Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina 1- 6, 7- 6 ( 2), 6- 4. Kerber will face Russia’s Daria Kasatkina, a 7- 5, 6- 3 ( 2) winner over seventh- seeded Roberta Vinci of Italy 7- 5, 6- 3. Fifth- seeded Simona Halep of Romania, a finalist last year in Toronto, beat 14th- seeded Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic 6- 3, 6- 3. Halep will face ninth- seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova, a 7- 6 ( 2), 6- 3 winner over 12th- seeded Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic.

Raonic advances Milos Raonic easily advanced to the Rogers Cup quarterfinals in front of his home fans in Toronto, routing American qualifier Jared Donaldson 6- 2, 6- 3 on Thursday night. The fourth- seeded Raonic, the Montenegroborn player who moved to the Toronto area when he was 3, set up a match today against 10th- seeded Gael Monfils of France. Top- seeded Novak Djokovic of Serbia also advanced, beating Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic 6- 2, 6- 4 in the late match. Djokovic, the tournament winner in 2007, 2011 and 2012, will face fifth- seeded Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic, a 6- 4, 6- 7 ( 2), 6- 4 winner over American Ryan Harrison. Monfils outlasted Belgium’s David Goffin 7- 6 ( 5), 2- 6, 6- 4, winning when Goffin put a backhand into the net at York University’s Aviva Centre. Also, second- seeded Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland beat 16th- seeded Jack Sock of the United States 7- 6 ( 3), 6- 2; third- seeded Kei Nishikori of Japan topped Rajeev Ram of the United States, 6- 3, 6- 4; South Africa’s

Kevin Anderson edged 12th- seeded Bernard Tomic of Australia 4- 6, 6- 3, 6- 4; and Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov beat Croatia’s Ivo Karlovic 6- 3, 7- 5. Nishikori will play Dimitrov. Wawrinka will face the 6- foot- 6 Anderson.